"THE BLACKOUT IN AMAPÁ: SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT TO ELECTRICITY".
Human Rights; Fudamental Rights; Law Founded in the Street; Electricity; Electricity Blacout.
This study has the aim to discuss the possibility of inclusion of access to electricity and the concrete possibility to
add it in the group of fundamental rights of the 1988 Federal Constitution of Brazil. It is established an analysis of one case study, based on an event in the recent history of Amapá state,which left 90% of the state territory without electricity supply. This event was called as blackout, it occurred during November 03 to 24, 2020, it caused a series of misfortunes in the routine of Society, this fact influenced directly on the delay of the municipality elections. It is narrated the day by day, during the ninety hours of the total electricity blackout, the population´s behavior, and the arrangements provided by the authorities and officials responsible for the electricity supply; the uneffective rotation system of electricity supply, as well as the sequence of other five blackouts after the electricity recovery. In this investigation, it was carried out a data survey on the importance, and necessity of access to electricity in the day by day of today Society, and how this lack breaks the human rights, showing where there is the dependence, which rights were impacted negatively by the electricity blackout, and which legal actions were taken in order to diminish this problem. It is discussed on the social role of the electricity and how it contributes for the social well-being and for the dignity of the human person. It is also shown the of the social movements against the electricity blackout in Amapá, and how they contributed historically for the evolution of the Society. Finally, this approach is aligned to the theoretical frameworks of The Law Founded in the Street, which were developed by Roberto Lyra Filho and coordinated by the Professor José Geraldo de Sousa Júnior, to consubstantiate the understanding, that the social movements are voices of the population cry for change, which are urgent for the Society, and that the state and the policians need to be aware for these historical changes, that demand legal regulation update. In this sense, to understand that the right to access to electricity, in the today worldwide scenario, it is a genuine human right, so, it is liable to make up as the group of fundamental rights.